'Muslim Mafia' Cries Foul for Exposure as Criminal Enterprise

After three times agreeing that it had no legal basis to claim its reputation was damaged by an undercover investigation documenting its ties to global jihad, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations is reversing itself just as a trial is about to be set.

CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after the two published their findings in the WND Books expose’ “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.”

In its lawsuit, CAIR originally alleged it suffered damages after the younger Gaubatz, posing as an intern, obtained access to some 12,000 pages of CAIR internal documents under false pretenses and made recordings of officials and employees without consent.

But U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly eliminated from the case any claim that the publication of the material or its transmission was in itself wrongful, meaning CAIR cannot claim damages.

“Muslim Mafia” documents CAIR’s support of radical jihad, recounting its origin as a front group for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the worldwide movement that has stated its intent to transform the U.S. into a Saudi-style Islamic state.

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